Section 36
Power To Frame Rules
(1) Government of Nepal may frame Rules in order to implement the objectives of this Act.
(2) Without prejudice to the generality of Sub-Section (1), these Rules may provide for any or all of the following matters:
(a) Procedure for the inspection of the main standard, the secondary standard and the working standard.
(b) The number in which measuring and weighing machines has to be maintained, the procedure for
inspecting and stamping them and other necessary matters relating thereto.
(c) Type of seal to be affixed by the manufacturer on commercial measures and weights or measuring and
weighing machines.
(d) The procedure to be observed while issuing licenses to manufacture, repair or sell commercial measures and
weights, or measuring and weighing machines, or to provide weighing and measuring services, and the
terms and conditions to be complied with by the licensee.
(e) Time limit for the inspection and stamping of measures or weights or measuring and weighing
machines and circumstances in which such inspection and stamping are to be invalidated.
(f) Procedure for maintaining and producing accounts and other records of measures and weights or measuring
and weighing machines.
(g) Determination of extent of discrepancy in commercial measures and weights or measuring and weighing
machines.
(h) Determination of the extent of discrepancy in weight and measurement in the main standard, the secondary
standard and the working standard.
(i) Determination of the extent of discrepancy to be allowed in respect to any trade or the sale of any
commodity of a commercial nature.
(j) Confiscation, impounds or exemption in respect any weight or measure or measuring and weighing
machine which is not authorized under this act.
(k) Procedure regarding expressing the quantity while converting any weight or measure into the standard
mass or measurement.
(l) Other matters which must be prescribed under this act.